Carrefour-Feuille is an area to the east of Port-Prince running from the sea-side into the mountains; the mountain areas were devastated by the earthquake of 2010. The Bazilo School is run by musician educators, Louis Lesly Marcelin (aka Sanba Zao) and Mireille Marcelin, to provide elementary education to local children as well as at least one meal a day; the school hires local schoolteachers as well. Donations can be made by Western Union Transfer. For more information, contact: Louis Lesly Marcelin at[email protected]

Atis Fanm Matenwa is a women’s artists collective located in a remote village in the interior of LaGonav island off the coast of Haiti; they seek funds to re-build their homes and to continue the art work that sustains their community:http://www.artmatenwa.org/
Although donations can be made to Atis Fanm through the above site, tax-deductible donations should be made through their fiscal agent, The Provincetown Community Compact (http://www.thecompact.org/), checks should be made out to the Compact noting “Atis Fanm Matenwa” on the memo line for the proper transfer of funds; note that the Compact takes 5% of the contribution to transfer funds so please take this into consideration when making your contribution if you can:
Atis Fanm Matenwa
c/o Jay Critchley
The Provincetown Community Compact
PO Box 819
Provincetown, MA 02657

Zanmi Lakay is an organization focused on assisting homeless and formerly homeless Haitian children attain an education and direction in life; a major project of ZL has been photography workshops and training, based in Jacmel, in Southern Haiti. Summer photography camps allow Haitian children and youth to document their own lives, as well as gain valuable training in a trade as photographers. The resulting photography is exhibited and sold locally as well as in the US. Children can also be sponsored to attend local schools. See the following website for more information, and to view the photography:www.zanmilakay.org

Mid-Size & Large NGOS doing good work:Zion’s Children of Haiti (founded May 2009), is a collaborative US-based/Haiti NGO with the following mission statement: “Our belief is that any enduring vision for Haiti’s future must begin and end with Haitians. Our goal is to provide support – financial, technical and organizational – to Haitians as they seek to provide greater opportunities for their children. Our partnerships have grown out of deep ties to Haiti, and we will continue to create new alliances to face current needs as they arise.” Their main focus is the education of Haiti’s children. For more information & to donate, see: http://www.zionschildrenhaiti.org/

KANPE, a francophone organization based in Montreal and founded by singer Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire & Dominique Anglade, who lost her well-known parents in the quake, focuses on various causes: economic independence, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, secure housing. Associated with Paul Farmer’s Fanmi Lasante & FONKOZE (site is in French & English): http://www.kanpe.org/

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Reviews for Loneliness of Angels (2010)

"A major new work in Caribbean fiction."- Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award Jury

"The Loneliness of Angels is ambitious...an important document of contemporary Haiti as affected by its recent history and its connections with the outside world."- Al Creighton's "Arts on Sunday," Sunday Stabroek, Guyana (September 25, 2011)

"The Loneliness of Angels reframes migration...as movement that both marks the people and history of the Caribbean and links to something beyond, what [Chancy] has recently called 'the ability to conceive of a world greater than ourselves and greater than the islands of our origins.' ....With [this novel] Chancy has exploited and expanded the novel's form to leave her readers with memorable characters and compelling stories..."- Sarah Barbour, "The Movement of Migration," The Caribbean Writer Vol. 25 (Summer 2011)

"Anthems, songs to angels, a character's obsession with Chopin -- music provides spaces of reprieve within the painful memories captured by this novel....[Ruth]'s a fascinating figure [revealed] in a gripping first sentence -- 'Ruth smoothes the plastic covering her memory table as if she is trying to undo wrinkles in time'....The character Rose is even more compelling...The chapter devoted to her is worth the price of the book."- Winnipeg Free Press, 4/7/10